Improvement in baggage-checks



W. H. JOHNSON.

Baggage-Check. I

No. 206,244. Patented July 23,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

\VILLIAM ll. JOHNSON, OF DELHI, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHTTO G. E. MARVINE, OF SAME PLACE.

IM PROVEMENT IN BAGGAGE-CHECKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent NO- 206,244, dated July 23,1878,- application filed November 23, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WV. H. JOHNSON, of Delhi, in the county of Delawareand State of New York, have invented certain Improvements inBaggageOhecks, of which the fol 10 wing is a specification:

My invention relates to that class of baggage-checks which are arrangedto present to view, one at a time, the names of stations along the routeon which the checks are used; and the improvements consist in a checkcomposed of two parts, held together by the strap which serves to attachthe check to the trunk or other article, one of said parts being formedwith a receptacle or case to receive a folded slip containing the namesof stations, h. ving an opening through which one of the names may beseen; in the employment of a printed slip containing the names ofstations, which may be readily removed and replaced by one containingthose of another route, whereby the check is adapted for use ondifferent roads or routes; and in afolded slip, which presents but onename to view at a time, and which may be held in a small space.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy improved check ready for use Fig. 2, a perspective view of the sameopened to remove the slip; Fig. 3, a vertical central section of thecheck closed, and Fig. 4 a view of the folded ticket removed.

The check consists of two metallic plates, A and B, one of which has anenlargement or case, a, formed upon its face, within which is placed afolded slip or ticket, D, containing the names of stations, the casehaving an opening, b, in its face through which to view one of thenames. The plates A and B are provided with corresponding openings 0near their upper and lower edges, and are so arranged that when placedtogether the plate B shall close the back of the case or enlargement a.

0 represents the strap by which the check is secured to the trunk orother article to which it is applied, one end of which is passed throughthe openings 0 in the lower edges of the plates A and B, and through anopening d, in the opposite end of the strap, and is thence carriedupward across the back of plate B through the openings 0 at the upperedge of the plates, and thus securing them together above and below, asshown in Figs. 1 and 3, when the strap 0 is drawn tight.

By loosening the strap, as shown in Fig. 2, the plates may be separatedat their upper edge, the strap serving as a hinge at their lower edge,and preventing their being detached at that point.

\Vheu thus separated or opened, the slip or ticket D may be inserted orremoved at will, thus permitting a different name to be presented toview.

The slip or ticket D consists merely of a straight strip of paper orother suitable material, on which are printed or otherwise produced, atequal distances from each other, the names of the various stations alongthe route on which the check is to be used. This strip is folded midwaybetween the names, leaving the desired name on the outside, and is thenplaced within. the case or receptacle a, with the name opposite theopening I), through which it may be viewed from the outside. The propername being thus arranged, the strap 0 is drawn tight, thus sccurin g theplates against each other and retaining the slip in place.

By thus folding the ticket or slip D it be comes impossible for any nameother than the proper one to come opposite the opening b, even in theevent of the ticket being folded small, and thus permitted to slip aboutin the case a. When properly folded, however, the slip will just fillthe case or receptacle a, and cannot move about, and thus the name willbe kept directly in front of the opening, where it may be readily seen.

It will also be seen that by folding the ticket it may be placed inavery small space, and hence the check may be made of the ordinary size.

The use of a printed slip also permits the use of the check 011different routes by simply changing the strip for one containing thenames of stations on the route on which the check is to be used.

By the construction above described I am enabled to dispense withexpensive hinges and The baggage-cheek consisting of the platesfastenings, and to produce a very simple and A B, constructed and unitedby the strap 0, efficient article at a small cost. as shown, and thefolded strip D, bearing a The check, when thus constructed, is strongseries of station-names mounted between the and durable, and in no wayliable to become plates, as described and shown. inoperative or injuredby denting, bending, or bruisin Vitnesses Having thus described myinvention, what I claim isl WILLIAM H. J OI-INSON.

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